As of today, we’re very pleased to announce that Metaweb is now a part of Google.
“Whoah… what’s going to happen to Freebase?” you might ask. Well, we’re also extremely pleased to be able to say “nothing”…. or rather, nothing other than getting better, and yes, even more open. As a first step toward that last point, we’re also happy to announce today that we have increased the frequency of our downloadable database dumps from quarterly to weekly.
We hope both announcements will encourage even more individuals, institutions and companies to use and contribute to Freebase. We believe that the more we can all work together on cataloging and connecting the “graph of everything,” the smarter the web will get.
As for the Metaweb product line, we will continue to support all of our existing partners, but we won’t be taking on new ones while we work with the Google team to deliver new and innovative ways to make the web smarter by linking content with entities. No idea what we mean by that? Then check out the fun video below.
You can also read more in Google’s announcement on their blog.
Yours,
The Metaweb Team
July 16th, 2010 at 10:47 am
omg wow. Any idea on how Google will use Freebase data or wants to profit from it?
July 16th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Congratulations! ;)
July 16th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Hi guys,
this is great news, congratulations!
Also great news for ‘linked data’ in general! We’re excited to use even more data from Freebase in the future, just keep it going!
bye
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta
July 16th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Congratulations Freebase. Look forward to more exciting news from you.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
@hangy: There is a bit about that in Google’s blog post, which should give you some idea of the sort of thing they have in mind.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Congratulations, and thank you for a fantastic platform!
July 16th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Congratulations guys
July 17th, 2010 at 12:50 am
@hangy: of course why buy something if it wont benifit you in some way (if you dont like money im happy to take it :P)
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July 17th, 2010 at 2:13 am
Congratulation, i’m curious how Google integrates it.
Beny Raccah, CEO at IsayBlog!
July 17th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Congratulations!
Hope the idea will evolve, and the web will feel the benefits from the project soon.
July 17th, 2010 at 8:55 am
The Google is really takes over the web and public data.
It will be great.
July 17th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Congrats!
You guys are going to get richer with more database and features overnight for sure.
July 17th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Hangy asks: “Any idea on how Google will use Freebase data or wants to profit from it?”
Did Google use YouTube for anything or profit from it?
Do they care, or is owning it enough?
Hopefully, Google will do something more interesting than merely owning Freebase.
BTW the video here is a great introduction to the web of linked data. Well done. I wonder if this was always there, or if it was recent, driven by the Google merger.
July 18th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Congratulations.
Seems like the $57M were well invested.
I just hope that freebase won’t go the BumpTop way…
July 18th, 2010 at 4:07 am
This seems to be good news so far. I will be waiting to see how it all turns out. Congratulations on the partnership with Google.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Congratulations! I think it will be exciting both for you and Google. Can’t wait to see your name entities in SERPs
July 19th, 2010 at 8:38 am
This is terrific news. Hopefully this will allow Google to be able to identify the many nicknames and spellings of terms, cities, and people so that I do not have to use the many variations of an “identity” in one website file. And much more!
This is an excellent company for Google to acquire and a project that I hope works to better the content management and retrieval of information via Google. Thanks everyone on both sides.
July 20th, 2010 at 7:47 am
Congrats all!
interested to watch the integration
July 21st, 2010 at 6:47 am
Brilliant. Hope Google will make a good use of this.
Something people can understand, appreciate and use.
July 21st, 2010 at 7:36 am
Awesome. Congratulations!
July 30th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Congratulations, this should make a great addition to Google’s line of services.